lays, concerts, movies crowd fall season
By SANFORD RUSSO
Battalion Staff
Define entertainment.
If the definition includes theater,
oncerts and movies, then A&M
nd the surrounding communities,
ryan and College Station, meet
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Drama
he drama season includes com-
nity, educational-experiential
id professional performances,
luditions for “Man of La Man-
start the season. The show is
ing sponsored by the Aggie
yers, the A&M student drama
up. Auditions will he held Au-
t 31 and September 1 and 2.
ipts, music and further informa-
i are available in Bizzel East 308,
Theater Arts office,
he Players continue in the lead
th four performances of “The
antasticks.” This musical was per-
ed in dinner theater during the
mmer to sell-out crowds. Show
s are September 8-12 and stu-
it tickets are $1.50. Tickets can
[purchased at the Memorial Stu-
t Center (MSC) Box Office, lo-
ted on the ground floor of the
Ider Tower, between the hours
8 and 5.
he Players offer season passes
$6.50, which includes four tic-
its for major productions, club
mbership and other benefits,
major productions for the year
the “Man of La Mancha, ” “One
w Over the Cuckoo s Nest,” “A
on for the Misbegotten,” and
Aesop’s Falables.”
The next drama event will be
"Come Blow Your Horn,” being
iroduced by Stage Center, the
community theater group. Perform-
ince dates are September 23-25 and
30 and October 1-2. Tickets are
$2.50. People interested in season
passes or joining Stage Center
should contact the organization at
822-5511.
Stage Center will also produce
“The Diary of Ann Frank” with per
formances scheduled for Novemebr
4-6 and 11-13. Stage Center also
lends its facilities to theatrical
groups.
As part of the Centennial Week
festivities, the roadshow company
for the musical “Shenandoah” will
perform October 7. Tickets for the
show will be available three weeks
prior to show date at the MSC Box
Office.
Shakespeare’s characters are por
trayed by Rob Inglis, October 13.
Inglis specializes in one-man acting
of early English writing. This will be
Inglis’s fourth visit to the A&M
campus in four years.
The professional group. The Act
ing Company, is scheduled to do
performances of “Loves’ Labor
Lost” February 24 and ‘Way of the
World” February 25. The perform
ances are part of the Opera and Per
forming Arts Society (OPAS) series.
Tickets for the series cost students
between $16 and $25, depending on
the location of the seats. Individual
performance tickets can be pur
chased three weeks prior to show
date.
Music
The music season at A&M in
cludes a wide variety of offerings
from popular to classical and from
student to professional.
There are six student musical per
formance organizations based on the
A&M campus and two community
groups which welcome students and
do campus performances.
The A&M-based groups are the
University Symphonic Band,
Commonwealth, the Singing
Cadets, Centennial Singers, Arion’s
Children and the Fightin’ Texas
Aggie Band, open only to male
Corps members.
Auditions for the University
Symphonic Band will begin August
31 with registration at 12:30 to 2 p. m.
in the Adams Band Hall. Capt. Joe
McMullen is conductor and will
hold try-outs, by appointment, after
distribution of music on September
2 and a week of practice.
Commonwealth is a variety band
under the direction of Mickey Fos
ter, an Aston Hall resident. Com
monwealth practices regularly in
the Commons lobby area. Auditions
are arranged with Foster.
Auditions for Singing Cadets,
Centennial Singers and Arion’s
Children will be held from August
30 to September 10 from 2 p.m. —
4:30 p.m. Appointments for audi
tions are made in the Vocal Music
office, MSC 003 (lower level near
the games area.)
Students who are soloists in the
blues or folk vein are welcomed to
audition for the Coffeehouse which
is open Friday and Saturday nights.
Auditions are held weekly on
Monday nights at 7:30 p.m. The
Coffeehouse is sponsored by the
Basement, which also brings profes
sional artists from the Texas area.
Don Sanders will perform Sep
tember 11 and Morning and Farron
Evans are tentatively scheduled for
the fall. The Basement also holds af
ternoon and evening open-air con
certs.
The first rehearsal for the
Bryan-College Station Chamber
Orchestra is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
September 2 in MSC 206. Bring a
music stand. For further informa
tion, call Penelope Kosztolnyik at
846-5486.
Season passes can be purchased
for the popular and classical music
series. The OPAS classical series
season includes Mexico’s Ballet
Folklorico, October 27; the Hous
ton Symphony in union with the
Centennial Singers, the Singing
Cadets and the Community Singers
doing Derlioz’s “Requiem,
November 4; The Acting Company,
February 24 and 25; Rudolph Ser-
kin, March 24; The Dance Theater
of Harlem, March 31 and the San
Antonio Symphony, April 21.
Guitarist Babosa-Lima is offered as
a special attraction.
Student season passes range from
$16 to $25, with a special discount
for those who buy early. The dis
count is available because $5000 in
student services fees were allocated
as a subsidy to OPAS.
The popular series. Town Hall, is
free to all A&M students with activ
ity cards. Tickets to each event must
be picked up at the MSC Box Office
and they become available three
weeks prior to shows.
The series includes Nitty Gritty
Dirt Band, September 10; Hamil
ton, Joe Frank and Dennison, Oc
tober 8; Johnny Rodriguez, October
22,; Balcones Fault and Wildwood,
November 19 and two as yet unde
termined performers on March 4
and April 16.
Reserved seats for series attrac
tions can be purchased for $10.
These are available at the MSC Box
Office.
Town Hall special attractions are
programs for which everyone must
purchase a ticket. These perform
ances include The U.S. Marine
Corps Band, brought especially for
the celebration of A&M’s 100th
birthday, October 4; Pure Prairie
League and The Amazing Rythmn
Aces, September 17; Bachman-
Turner Overdrive, October 15; and
Michael Murphy, Bonfire Night
November 23.
The annual visit of a mariachi
band will occur on September 16 in
the MSC Lounge from 12:30 p.m. to
1:30 p.m. and in the Rudder Mall
from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Film
Movies done for art’s sake, for the
science fiction fan or for general ap
peal are a steady nightly diet on the
A&M Campus.
The films arfe done in series with
art films shown on Mondays,
classics 'shown on Tuesdays or
Wednesdays, science fiction shown
on Thursdays and popular shown on
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
There are popular films shown at
midnight on Fridays. There are also
student organizations which show
special-interest films, but these are
scheduled at the club’s descretion.
A cinematography class views vint
age films on Thursday evenings.
Admission to most series films and
most others is one dollar. Series film
tickets can be purchased the
Monday before the show. Below is a
listing of series films.
4
6
7
9
12
13
16
20
21
23
25
26
29 & 30
Nov. 1
5
6
10
12
13
14
15
Three Days of the Con-
dor
&
The Blackbird and Lost
Horizon
8 l A
Ben Hur
Godzilla’s Revenge
Bite the Bullet
The Mad Adventures of
“Rahbi” Jacob
Andromeda Strain
Funny Lady
Wuthering Heights
When Worlds Collide
French Connection II
Shame
Psycho & Lifeboat
Young Frankenstein
Fireman’s Ball
The Wind and the Lion
The Wind and the Lion
&
Nashville
East of Eden
&
Rebel Without a Cause
Day of Triffids
The Exorcist
The Discreet Charm of
the Bourgois
The Point
The Exorcist
&
Aug. 28
Mouthy Python & the
My Fair Lady
Holy Grail
17
Lord of the Flies
Sept. 2
4-D Man
18
Dr. Strangelove
3
Return of the Pink
20
Four Musketeers
Panther
&
29
Midsummer’s Night’s
Dream
Harry & Tonto
Dec. 1
Shrinking Man
8
Gone With the Wind
4
Love and Death
9
2001: Space Odessey
&
11
Cabaret
Bananas
16
Lost World
5
Bananas
20
Throne of Blood
&
22
Moby Dick
Everything You Wanted
23
Things to Come
to Know About Sex
24 & 25
Tom my
7
Arsenic and Old Lace
28
Emigrants
9
Barbarella
30
Last Days of Man on
Earth
11
Magoo’s Christmas Carol
&
Oct. 1
Three Days of the Con
dor
Brother Sun, Sister
Moon
I Mb fc$A l IALION Page i hi
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1976
July was dry
in Bryan, C.S.
but change to
come soon
Rain gauges in a network oper
ated by Texas A&M University’s
Meteorology Department were
more empty than usual in July.
There just wasn’t much moisture
in them.
Nineteen observers in the Car
ters Creek catchment area, includ
ing most of Bryan and College Sta
tion, averaged 1.97 inches of pre
cipitation last month. In most cases
it took 10 or more days to achieve.
The 19 monthly totals fell be
tween 1.1 and 2.65 inches. The lat
ter, measured near Harvey on FM
30, was the only July total to reach
or surpass the norm for the month of
2.56 inches. The 1.1-inch reading
was taken in the 400 block of Mitch
ell in Bryan.
Though July rainfall was scatterd
over a third of the month, useful
amounts were recorded on July
9-10. Steady rains on the two days
gauged better than an inch at some
points, and from a half to three-
quarters of an inch eleswhere.
Observers got respite from the
numerous gauge-emptying trips of
July during the first two weeks of
August. Minor showers on the 15th
provided the first moisture of Au
gust. For most of the catchment, it
was the first rain of any kind since
July 24, a 21-day dry spell.
According to the National
Weather Service 30-day outlook,
change may be in the wind. The
outlook covering mid-August to
mid-September features above
normal rainfall and below-normal
temperatures.
Averages for the period are 81.9
degrees and 2.6 inches.
First year a challenge to freshmen Academic appointments made
(Ed. note: The following was
»ken from the Corps of Cadets’
indard, 1976. It condenses what
expected of incoming freshmen
what they, in turn can expect,
can take out of it what you
ik it’s worth.)
Sin coming to A&M, you are en
tering a new kind of life. You will
have new duties and responsibilities
placed upon your shoulders, and
the way in which you carry those
responsibilities will be a measure of
the success which you attain in your
college life. Adjustments will have
to be made, but these too will
strengthen your moral fiber.
Your academic subjects are of
prime importance. When you come
here, you are no longer a high
school (student), but should come as
an (adult). You will be treated as
such by your professors and you will
be expected to conduct yourself ac
cordingly. Your academic work will
not be forced upon you, nor will it
be fed to you in teaspoon doses; you
will find that you will be able to
grow and develop academically just
as fast and as thoroughly as you are
willing to put forth effort to gain
your education. The responsibility
for success or failure lies largely
with you.
Be a good Aggie by entering into
the Spirit of Aggieland. You will get
out of your freshman year just what
you put into it. Nobody is going to
hand you anything. The best
freshmen make the best up
perclassmen because from the be
ginning, they enter wholeheartedly
into the Aggie way of life. Strive to
make your first year an outstanding
year - academically and personally
— and in time you too will be enti
tled to claim your share of the
privileges and the responsibilities of
rank.
The “fish year is not easy; it will
probably be the most difficult of
your college career because it marks
the first stage of your transition from
childhood to adulthood. But it will
also be the year that lives longest in
your memories and, after it is com
pleted, we sincerely hope you will
be able to look back on it with pride
and pleasure.
Major academic appointments in the
Texas A&M University College of Liberal
Arts, including a new head of history, have
been announced by Dean W. David Max
well.
Dr. Keith L. Bryant Jr., 38, will lie-
come History Department head Sept. 1.
In other appointments. Dr. Charles E.
Harris Jr. will become acting head of the
philosophy & humanities department, ef
fective Sept. 1, and Dr. Charles Maurice
will continue as acting head of the eco
nomics department, a post he has held
since July 16.
Bryant was formerly associate graduate
school dean at the University of Wisconsin
at Milwaukee. He will replace Dr. Allan
C. Ashcraft, longtime A&M faculty
member who has been acting head of his
tory for over a year.
Both Harris and Maurice have been
with the A&M faculty since 1967.
Harris will replace Dr. Manuel Daven
port, head of philosophy for 10 years, who
is returning to fulltime teaching. Maurice
has been acting this summer for Dr.
Robert D. Tollison, who is on a year’s
leave.
THE A&M
ITED METHODIST
CHURCH
SERVING TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
BOB E. WATERS
PARISH MINISTER
GARY S. MUNION
CAMPUS MINISTER
ROY B. SHILLING
EVANGELISM MINISTER
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8:30 & 10:50 - MORNING WORSHIP
9:40 - CHURCH SCHOOL CLASSES
6:00 - WESLEY SUPPER
7:00 - WESLEY VESPERS
8:00 - RECREATION
EACH SUNDAY
OUTREACH
The A&M United Methodist Parish includes both A&M United Methodist Church and the student program
— Wesley Foundation at A&M.
The A&M Methodist Church is a great and warm church, fully ready to serve you and meet your needs.
It welcomes students to become a part of the total life of the church and would welcome your membership,
either full or affiliate.
The Wesley Foundation is the student program of the A&M United Methodist Church. Wesley is a com
munity of faith where students may grow in faith, gain support and leadership ability, and build priorities
and principles for life.
Wesley programs include worship, study, service, outreach, recreation, and student aid.
RECREATION
STUDENT AID
You will have many opportunities to meet Wesley leaders this fall. Our campus minister and
many student counselors will be at “Fish Camp.” Just look for the “Cross & Flame” emblem on
our shirts.
At the M.S.C. Open House Wesley will have a booth, so come by. Then on Sunday morning,
August 29, meet us at the All Faiths Chapel at 9:30 for an introduction to our program & upper class-
men. Finally, that Sunday evening at 7 p.m. we will host a pie supper at the church. Come meet us.
A&M UNITED METHODIST CHURCH—417 UNIVERSITY DRIVE •WESLEY FOUNDATION—TAUBER STREET